Verily, I Doth Have A New FuMP

[filkertom]

The Mighty Thor does Roy Clark. I might tweak the mix on the absolute final album version.

If you want to do some of your own unlikely Thorspeak, go right ahead.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Oh dear ghods. I shall save this for football season and play it. Often. And regularly.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

When you say "often"....

"Hast thou prepared thyself for some FOOTBALL?"

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Tom, I work at UT Knoxville, home of The Vols. Does that tell you why I damn near fell out of my chair listening to "Stony Peak"? :-)

[dhstein.livejournal.com]

Yeay! Verily

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Valery!

[sweetmusic-27.livejournal.com]

*sniff* That's beautiful, Tom. I laughed my head off

If you ever need a fiddlin' Freya, just let me know. ;)

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

LOL! I envy your cracked mind and musical skill.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Ja! ist skone jaagerily...

Or to put it another way, Yes that rocks mightily!
[or at least, that's what I think I said...I'm a bit rusty.]

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

:) This made me smile. I was born in Nashville, TN though spent most of my life here in Michigan. Country music and Bluegrass were staples of my childhood and Rocky Top is among my all time favorite songs.

Thank you Tom. This is one of the best from you yet. :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I have a cassette of Roy Clark in concert from 1976. (I first heard it in 1977, and I ain't lettin' it go.) I don't know where it was recorded, but there's a full Vegas-style back-up orchestra. But Roy opens with "Rocky Top", and he hits the bridge and just goes full-blown on the banjo and it's like that clip at the very end of the Iron Man trailer where Iron Man just TAKES THE FUCK OFF and I have adored that song ever since.

Roy Clark is a god.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

If you can find it there's a song I would highly reccomend. Foggy Mountain Breakdown. It's an instrumental piece but it's among the very best banjo songs I've ever heard. Roy Clark's done it as have several other greats from the bluegrass field (yes I realize I just made a bad pun)

:)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know that one very well. Actually, I'd known it for years -- I was a big Hee-Haw fan -- I didn't know the name of it until I heard the Steve Martin routine about Nixon with a banjo....

And, just for fun, here's Steve performing it with Earl Scruggs and a bunch of other talented guys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw).

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

Ah. Now there's some great music :D
Have you ever considered trying to get a bunch of the filkers together to do this one Tom? It would be a heck of a way to start off a filk fest sometime.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Foggy Mountain Breakdown was a huge part of the soundtrack of the film Bonnie & Clyde; it was actually a moderate pop hit for a short time. At the time it was probably the 2nd biggest banjo hit ever (right behind The Ballad of Jed Clampett) in the days before Deliverance.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Roy Clark is a god.

You damstraight he is!

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

What? Thor get retconned?

*ducks* ;-)

Great song by the way!

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I haven't been able to take Thor seriously since I saw him declaim, in Great Big Letters, "THOR HAST SPOKEN!"

Not that you're taking him seriously either, of course... :)

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

For me, it was when Don Blake's (temporary? I haven't kept up) replacement told Cap and the other Avengers, "I'm sorry, Thor can't come to the vidphone right now. He's...er...out to lunch."

And of course, in the same issue: "Fear not, fair damsel! Verily shalt the God of Thunder...umm...clobber yon varlet!"

Not that Blake's version of the golden-locked thunderer was immune to silliness. I recall a certain sequence in a malt shop...

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Oh, great, now I'm thinking of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" all done in bluegrass, complete with a hundred valkyries riding down on white stallions all playing banjos. Now I'll never get any work done today.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

WIN!

My Ghodz, what a mental image!

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Oh, she flew down from Asgard with a banjo on her knee,
She's going to Midgard, her Siegfried for to see,
The Gods rained death on the night she left,
The ring so hot she froze to death, Brunnhilde, don't you cry.


Your turn for the next segment.

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

My first filk ever was to that tune.

The alphabet song scans to it...

Now I know my A-B-C's
Won't you come and sing with me.
Cuz's this is how we sing the A-B-C's
Down in...

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Luke played this on his show right before I went to bed before PenguiCon. It verily rocked, and I want to do an AMV using the Marvel Comics version of Thor and the Warriors Three. I also heard you do this live at PenguiCon, and I am glad you included the God of Thunder closer at the end of it :-)